352 REVIEW—LOCAL LISTS OF BIRDS. 
to the local lists of our northern counties, we found Mr. Christy’s 
catalogue of great utility and very complete, the only omissions 
which we have been able so far to discover being the following :— 
AIKIN (W. O.).—Birds of Somersham, Hunts. The Zoologist, 
1845, lil. 855-856. 
Briccs (J. J.).—The Birds of Melbourne, [Derbyshire]. The 
Zoologist, 1849, pp. 2475, 2559, 2603, and 1850, pp. 2793, 
2817, and 2949. 
Gtover (STEPHEN).—A Sketch of the Zoology of Derbyshire 
. . « Class 2. Birds—The History of the County of 
Derby, vol. i. 1829, pp. 139-166. 
Knox (A. E.). Notes on the Birds of Sussex. The Zoologist, 
1843, 1. 137 et sequ. 
The first three, however, involve one of the statements which 
Mr. Christy makes in his introduction, wherein he cites Derbyshire 
and Hunts as among the counties to which but scant attention has 
been paid. No doubt this still remains correct so far as regards 
Hunts, but in justice to Derbyshire, it is noteworthy that Mr. Briggs’ 
list of the Birds of Melbourne is a very full and detailed account of 
the avifauna of the area of which it treats, while Glover’s list includes 
as many as 165 species. 
We note that in some few instances annotations are made, such 
as the number of species enumerated in some of the local lists, and 
statements as to the reliability or unreliability of the list. It would 
perhaps have been better for the latter class of remarks to have 
been more uniformly and systematically given, and for the statistics 
to have been appended to every list, avoiding however the method in 
which Macpherson and Duckworth’s ‘ Birds of Cumberland’ is dealt 
with. This is quoted under Westmorland on the strength of the 
sub-title ‘With Notes of the Birds of Westmorland,’ and a note 
appended to the effect that it enumerates 250 species. A reference 
to the book itself, however, shows that the 250 species are 
Cumbrian, and that only an extremely limited number of birds are 
noted as having been observed for Westmorland. We note also 
that our own journal is referred to throughout as ‘ The Naturalist 
the year and : 
Mr. Christy has, however, done his work extremely well and 
with as near an approach to the completeness which he claims in 
his introductory observations as may reasonably be expected, 
and we heartily congratulate him upon the result—W.D.R.__ 
EN 
Naturalist, 
